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Fiscal Receipts

Special Update Program

FProcurementFully Reconciled846510
What it is
Special Update Program — a procurement program run by Air Force.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — trajectory data incomplete for this line.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$1.04B
FY25 Total
FY26 Request
$1.18B
FY25→26 Change

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $1.04BFY26: $1.18BFY24FY26
FY24
$1.04B
FY26
$1.18B
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY22FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$935.0M$999.3M$1.04B
Enacted$996.5M$1.04B$1.50B
Request$1.04B$1.27B$1.18B

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Description Special Update Program

This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.

Justification

Justification Special Update Program

This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit P-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Other Procurement, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$1.04B
Other Procurement, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$1.50B
Other Procurement, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$1.18B
Other Procurement, Air ForceFFY26 Total$1.18B

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$1.04B$1.50B$1.18B$1.18B

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

Program dossier

Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.

Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1741 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →

What it is

  • Special Update Program (budget line 846510) is a U.S. Air Force procurement line funded in the Other Procurement, Air Force appropriation.
  • The program is a classified effort: its published budget documentation states only that it is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
  • Because the program is reported through the Special Access Program channel, its detailed description and justification are withheld from the public budget exhibit and provided only in the classified annual report.

Why it matters

  • The program's total funding is $1,178,397 thousand (about $1.18 billion) requested for FY 2026.
  • In FY 2024 the program recorded actual spending of $1,042,833 thousand (about $1.04 billion), so the FY 2026 request is a modest increase over recent execution.
  • The entire FY 2026 request is discretionary: the P-1 exhibit shows a $1,178,397 thousand discretionary request and no reconciliation (mandatory) request.
  • The FY 2026 request of about $1,178.4 million is below the current-year level of about $1,503.3 million, so year-over-year the classified line steps down even as it stays above its FY 2024 execution.

Key players

  • The program is run by the U.S. Air Force, with funding drawn from the Other Procurement, Air Force appropriation.
  • No external contractors or partner organizations are named in the public exhibit, consistent with the program being reported under the Title 10 Section 119(a)(1) Special Access Program process.